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Livin' la vida loca
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Feck me! Mazunte was nice but this place is like heaven man! I arrived in Tulum on the Carribean coast 3 days ago, since then I haven't worn shoes or a t-shirt, spending all day lying on this beautiful beach, the finest white sand, brilliant azul waters, gorgeous topless women everywhere! Aaahhh. When I got here, this fall-over-on-the-beach-when-you-look-at-her stunning Israleli girl bounded up to me in her tiny pink bikini and asked me if I'd like to share a Cabana with her! Bonus! A bit out of my league I reckon, but nice to be friends anyway. The cabanas are just bamboo cabins with sand floors, thatched roofs, no electricity, the sea 20m away, $5 a night, feckin' blissful! How I'm going to leave, I really don't know.
  
I've hooked up with this boy from a town called Dublin, great lad, we bought 2 litres of Mexican rum for $6 yesterday!! Drank the lot last night and had a total feckin' laugh with all these sound Israeli folk. I keep meeting people I've met weeks before in all the other places I've been to, it's like everyone is heading in the same direction, that well worn Gringo trial I guess. Tonight we're off to a big barbecue and salsa party, more antics to follow...
Had a marathon hell journey from the Pacific coast after, staying the night in the rankest hostel in Puerto Escondido, suffering devilishly with all my mossie bites and sunburn, pissing with rain, rivers running down the street, my only night so far on my own - not good. Then an 11 hour busride along a perilous half washed out mountain track to San Cristobal in the mountains, a beautiful colonial town in Chiapas, lovely climate, very indigenous.
 
Then a speedboat ride up this amazing 1000m high canyon, crocs everywhere. Early morn, I headed for Palenque where I found some trully magical Mayan ruins in the jungle, mist enshrouded, very mysterious. The first hispanic people here thought it was the lost city of Atlantis.
  That same night I got a night bus onto Merida, feck staying in Palenque, the heat and humidity in the jungle was unbearable, I was drinking 5 litres of water a day and soaking three shirts worth of sweat out. Merida, known as "the white city" and capital of the Yucatan Maya, is where you get the best hammocks in the world and is good for visiting Chichen Itza, the most well known of all the Mayan sites in Mexico.
 
The pyramid is perfect and the architecture was amazing, climbed up it, round it, inside it, up it again, was very nice. I'm all "ruined" out now though, just too many of the feckers! That afternoon went snorkelling in crystal clear fresh water underground caverns (Cenotes), swimming thru shoals of millions of tiny tropical fish, even saw a Manatee - magic! Yucatan is one big, totally flat limestone shelf, extending 10km out to sea and wheres theres holes, theres these "Cenotes" everywhere.
 
Finally, I made it to the "Riviera Maya" and found Tulum, a rest at last....
Hopefully next time you hear from me, I'll be in Guatemala but maybe I'll get stuck here... Might just give Belize a miss....
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